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CCRMA Open House 2018

We are in the midst of planning our Open House, which will be held on Friday March 2, 2018. Join us as we present lectures, hands-on demonstrations, posters, and musical performances of recent CCRMA research. Come explore the historic Knoll and see what we've been cooking up!
The Open House will run from 10am-noon, and 2-5pm. The detailed schedule and list of events are being ironed out now, so keep your eyes on https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house for the latest info on what will be on offer. Hope to see you there!

Summer Workshops 2018 Announced!

Summer 2018 just got a whole lot cooler: our amazing lineup of computer music workshops has been announced! Check out the schedule here

Upcoming Events

scapegoat is an experimental saxophone and percussion duo. Close creative collaboration and multi-media projects form the basis of their pursuit for artistic innovation and expression. Programmes are designed to broaden and challenge the musical experience of the audience, through original works featuring live electronics, performer-controlled sonic and visual amplification, video and lighting design, and improvisation. scapegoat's 2017/18 season features new commissions of composers Pierluigi Billone and Michelle Lou funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, with residencies and performances as part of an Australian tour, a Californian tour, and at the Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Open Ears Festival (Kitchener).

Recent Events

Cal Performances presents - MY LAI - the Kronos Quartet’s fully-staged collaboration with CCRMA composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman that explores the aftermath of My Lai—a tragic episode in the Vietman War when American soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed villagers—from the perspective of the helicopter pilot who tried to intervene. Berger’s score blends Rinde Eckert’s voice with the strings of the Kronos Quartet augmented by traditional Vietnamese instruments played by Vân-Ánh Võ, and an electronic soundscape of helicopters, voices, and snippets of American blues.

Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) would like to invite you to our annual Open House on Friday March 2 2018, 10am-5pm. Please join us for demonstrations, lectures, performances and posters that present some of our latest research projects. This year’s keynote address will be delivered by visiting Artist/Scholar Yann Orlarey, scientific director of our French sister institution GRAME and leading developer of the FAUST (Functional Audio Stream) programming language.

Recent News

Way to go, Dr. Selfridge-Field! Very interesting article about her work with master musicians suffering from dementia.

From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...

All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!

"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."